Linking molecules to microbes

Microbes are the oldest and most successful organisms on the planet, and they communicate and interact using chemistry as their language. It remains extremely challenging to understand these chemical interactions in natural environments, for instance, to tie the production of particular molecules to individual bacterial cells or at least populations of cells. Scientists now made an important step into this direction by simultaneously visualizing the distribution of antibiotics and their producers in natural samples.

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